The Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) restored their sovereignties and independences in 1991 from Soviet occupation, which had lasted for more than 50 years. By restoring their independences, they have been recognized as continuing states ...
The Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) restored their sovereignties and independences in 1991 from Soviet occupation, which had lasted for more than 50 years. By restoring their independences, they have been recognized as continuing states before the occupation in 1940, The continuity of the legal identity of the Baltic States enabled them to reestablish themselves as the erstwhile Eastern European states, hence they could join the European Union (EU) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The Republic of Korea has claimed the continuity of the legal identity of the Empire of Korea, which was forcefully annexed by Japan in 1910. There are similar or almost identical legal grounds among them to be recognized as the reestablished states in international law. These sui generis cases of rebirth of states are surely the testaments to the legal norm of ex injuria non oritur jus.